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McCain: ‘Unanswered questions’

When Americans are asked if they believe the White House lied or engaged in a coverup, 54 percent said that inaccurate initial statements from the White House were based on the best knowledge they had at the time. Forty percent believe there was a coverup, according to the poll.

Forty-eight percent believe the U.S. could have prevented the attack, and 42 percent think it could not have been stopped.

Meanwhile, Americans are split in their opinion of David Petraeus’s resignation as CIA director following an extramarital affair. Forty-eight percent believe it was the right thing to do, while 48 percent opposed the move. At the same time, 44 percent believe the White House handled the resignation well, while 44 percent don’t approve of the administration’s handling of the episode. Americans retain a favorable opinion of the former general: 44 percent have a positive view of Petraeus, with only 28 percent possessing a negative view.

The poll of 1,023 Americans was conducted from Nov. 16 to Nov. 18. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

And the 40% of the liberals that are "satisfied" as polled by CNN think Benghazi is a new dish Rachel Ray just came up with as well. How would they know there is no cover up? Why bother, no one is going to hold President Cover Up accountable anyway.

Of course there was no cover up and WE THE PEOPLE know it! Just because to old bitter losers scream that their was one. Doesnt make it so.

Yah,yah. You must be right because you demmies believe there was "bad" intel from the Benghazi crisis, but you same hypocrites decided that the intel President Bush received and both houses of Congress received (and voted to go to war on) regarding the wmd in Iraq was some kind of fraud or cover-up or lie.

WE THE PEOPLE know that not all hypocrites are democrats, but all democrats are hypocrites.

Benghazi was murder and an attempted cover-up by incompetent Communists. At least the Russian media Pravda understands that Obama was (allegedly) re-elected by an "illiterate society"--- many of whom are regular commenters here on Politico. Stupid is as stupid does!

The alleged election results are bogus to the discerning, as is the fraud Barack Hussein Obama. Pravda's terminology of "illiterate society" doesn't just apply to those unable to read. It also applies to those with tunnel vision and an inability to think above a grade school mentality.

"And the 40% of the liberals that are "satisfied" as polled by CNN think Benghazi is a new dish Rachel Ray just came up with as well. How would they know there is no cover up? Why bother, no one is going to hold President Cover Up accountable anyway."

On the other hand Tom Ricks held Fox News accountable for spreading this nonsense among you gullible conspiracy theorists. So there is some justice in the world.

Insamuch as I care about Fox News at all, they're a real hoot. I don't have cable TV, so I can only watch clips, but they are so clearly an entertainment medium, not part of the news media, that it's hard for me to expect them to follow any sort of journalistic standards. I appreciated the clown show they ran on election night with Karl Rove. It was the setup for one of the best Daily Show clips ever.

So if I'm obsessed with Fox News, it's because they are so darned hilarious. It's no wonder Murdoch moved them from the news division of his empire to the entertainment division. He's been trying to create the image that the Wall Street Journal is still a legitimate news source, and didn't want to contaminate the WSJ's image by getting it conflated with Fox News.

Benghazi was politicized by the Romney Campaign and republicans just ran with it, its called jumping the shark.

For the comments they made about Susan Rice, based on absolutely no factual evidence John McCain and Lindsay Graham forever disgraced themselves and the offices they hold, they are an embarrassment to the United States of America

jbielot.......the alleged results? Do you think they are not legitimate? If your only problem is that they were cast by unknowleagble voters, that still doesn't make them somehow invalid. For whatever reason, Obama was reelected and its real, it's constitutional and he is the President of the US. He is my president as well as your president. It's unpatriotic to insist that his reelection is "alleged". When Baby Bush won in 2004, I was unhappy, but that never gave me the right to say he was the alleged president. That would have been as stupid as relying on Pravda as my news source, or as loony as believing an entertainer like Beck is a trusted source of legitimate news. My definition of illiterate is someone who believes an entrainer is a legitimate source for news. Kid, he wants you to like him so he is feeding you candy. Don't fall for it. You are smarter than that.

You know. If the poll said that people believed there was no coverup and also that people thought Obama handled it well, there would be something there to claim that liberals were blind. But that wasn't the results. People think it was handled badly. So they see there were problems that have to be resolved. But they don't think that there was a coverup. If you really think hard about it, and look at the poll, you could see that. But unless you want to understand it, you will not. You will continue to use the dead body of Stevens as a weapon against your president. It's sad that Stevens died and that some people don't care about that as much as being able to use the death to reinforce their own political beliefs. Disgusting.

No one in the entire Obama administration had the wisdom or foresight to increase security at our embassies and consulates for the anniversary of 9/11?

Nope, but some republicans in congress, in their zeal to reduce the deficit DID have the wisdom of reducing the budget for security around all our embassies from $5 billion a year to $4.5 billion a year. If anything it looks to me like house republicans didn't take the security seriously if they thought we could save $500 million dollars on it.